I was looking at the Murk++ codebase and noticed a startup script that worked with windows. I'm thinking about using it just to make development a bit more convenient but I'm not sure how to change things.

This is oldschool batch file programming. I wanna say that it's edlin or something to that effect. You might just google .bat files. As far as changing where to look for shutdown.txt, it appears to be assuming that shutdown.txt is in the same folder as the script. If it's anything like Rom 2.4, the startup script is in the area folder, so you might just try moving the startup script to a different folder and see what results you get.

I want to change the file locations. At the moment it checks the area file for shutdown.txt, I'd rather it ..\system\shutdown.txt but I tried that and it doesn't seem to work.

The batch file checks the current directory for shutdown.txtBoth the code and script are configured to run from the root directory.If you wish to change that then you need to change the location of files in config.hppThe location of the hotboot files in commands.cppAnd the makefile.